CCS MSP430 "Error initializing emulator: Could not find MSP-FET430UIF on specified COM port"

Alexander Ventura

"Error initializing emulator:

Could not find MSP-FET430UIF on specified COM port"

Win7 64 bit

MSP430G2

I recently acquired an MSP430 launchpad and have been eager to make it work. Unfortunately, nothing seems to work. I have been trying to download a piece of code that I wrote but I keep getting the above error. I have tried using the IAR IDE,l but I also get an error similar to the above one.

I have been playing with it trying to make it work for over 7 hours but nothing has worked. Could anybody help me?

The device shows in the device manager as:

Ports (COM & LPT)
MSP430 Application UART (COM5)

and

Human Interface Devices
HID -compliant consumer control device

USB Input Device

over 13 years ago

0 Lisa TI over 13 years ago

TI__Guru*** 130875 points

Hi Alexander,

what version of CCS did you install/do you have? Do you have multiple versions? Do you happen to know the dll version that go installed?

Best Regards,

Lisa

0 Lisa TI over 13 years ago in reply to Lisa TI

TI__Guru*** 130875 points

Hi Alexander,

I just thought I would check whether there is an update to your enquiry? Would you be able to provide a bit further information should you still require assistance?

Best Regards,
Lisa

0 Alexander Ventura over 13 years ago in reply to Lisa TI

Prodigy 90 points

I have actually found the problem and fixed it after doing some research. The problem happens when certain other pieces of software are running at the same time IAR or CCS is trying to compile and download the code into the MSP430 chip. In this case, the problem was solved after carefully stopping certain processes and testing whether the downloading was successful The services causing this distress were: a Dell widget application that comes with my laptop, and Daemon Tools Pro which I use to virtualize drives.

0 Lisa TI over 13 years ago in reply to Alexander Ventura

TI__Guru*** 130875 points

Hi Alexander,

ok, glad to hear you figured it out. All the best with development.

Best Regards,
Lisa

0 Casey Cotter over 12 years ago in reply to Alexander Ventura

Prodigy 60 points

I had the same problem and I shut down everything that wasn't essential to they system and now it works. However I still have to hit retry 1 to 5 times to get it to work.

Thanks,

Casey

0 Alberto Jimenez over 11 years ago in reply to Alexander Ventura

Prodigy 10 points

Thanks Alexander Ventura. I' ve been as well having the same debugging problem until your solution became mine. Shutting down processes one at a time came out with accuweather application interfering with debugging. so I can now work with my msp430 finally. Guys try this solution

0 Jim Speir over 11 years ago in reply to Alexander Ventura

Prodigy 10 points

I had this problem too and that fixed it. I am running Windows 8 Pro x64 and found that shutting down the Windows 8 mail app resolved the issue. How strange! I still get weird intermittancy with it though.

0 Jon Ottaway over 9 years ago

Prodigy 240 points

Posting for anyone looking at these threads still having problems (as I was). Just spent a day trying to get the EZY-FET (the Launchpad integrated emulators) going on a WIN 8.1 machine and getting these messages despite the FET being visible in Device Manager. Turns out the "Bluetooth Device Monitor" service was responsible and the FET has been very stable since disabling it. IAR 6.30.1, Win 8.1, Intel i7-4710HQ.

0 stephen hudson over 8 years ago in reply to Alexander Ventura

Prodigy 10 points

i had the same problem all of you had, i solved it by unplugging my headphones from the USB port.

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